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picket

English

🔊 a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake
🔊 a wooden strip forming part of a fence
🔊 a vehicle performing sentinel duty
🔊 a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
🔊 a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
🔊 a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
🔊 fasten with a picket
“picket the goat”
🔊 serve as pickets or post pickets
“picket a business to protest the layoffs”